Vicarious Thrills

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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster 4.26 avg rating — 551,022 ratings
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Into the Wild
Into the Wild 4.02 avg rating — 1,165,720 ratings
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea 4.12 avg rating — 117,725 ratings
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail 4.07 avg rating — 436,144 ratings
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex 4.16 avg rating — 115,986 ratings
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors 4.14 avg rating — 80,877 ratings
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage 4.46 avg rating — 155,709 ratings
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Kon-Tiki
Kon-Tiki 4.16 avg rating — 24,592 ratings
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West with the Night
West with the Night 4.15 avg rating — 40,234 ratings
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail 4.07 avg rating — 850,533 ratings
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream 4.07 avg rating — 370,611 ratings
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time 3.66 avg rating — 358,692 ratings
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In a Sunburned Country
In a Sunburned Country 4.07 avg rating — 119,165 ratings
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Wind, Sand and Stars
Wind, Sand and Stars 4.12 avg rating — 20,393 ratings
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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom 4.24 avg rating — 21,396 ratings
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea 4.02 avg rating — 14,409 ratings
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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition 4.34 avg rating — 21,553 ratings
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Black Harvest
Black Harvest 4.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
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On the Road / The Dharma Bums / The Subterraneans
On the Road / The Dharma Bums / The Subterraneans 4.13 avg rating — 405 ratings
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The Travelers Within: Into The Unknown
The Travelers Within: Into The Unknown really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Night
Night 4.38 avg rating — 1,334,300 ratings
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story 3.93 avg rating — 61,222 ratings
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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia 3.81 avg rating — 6,040 ratings
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 4.39 avg rating — 352,805 ratings
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Arabian Sands
Arabian Sands 4.20 avg rating — 5,926 ratings
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Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road 3.87 avg rating — 5,880 ratings
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Lawrence of Arabia
Lawrence of Arabia 4.04 avg rating — 498 ratings
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette 4.29 avg rating — 24,759 ratings
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The Elephant Whisperer: Learning about Life, Loyalty and Freedom from a Remarkable Herd of Elephants
The Elephant Whisperer: Learning about Life, Loyalty and Freedom from a Remarkable Herd of Elephants 4.50 avg rating — 31,520 ratings
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A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan
A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan 4.09 avg rating — 18,963 ratings
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before 4.04 avg rating — 10,354 ratings
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Serpico
Serpico 4.01 avg rating — 3,531 ratings
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War 3.89 avg rating — 45,341 ratings
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History 4.05 avg rating — 70,022 ratings
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Sailing Alone around the World
Sailing Alone around the World 4.15 avg rating — 10,946 ratings
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We Bought a Zoo
We Bought a Zoo 3.54 avg rating — 8,013 ratings
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A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush 3.96 avg rating — 6,855 ratings
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Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)
Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1) 4.20 avg rating — 23,606 ratings
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Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E. Lawrence
Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E. Lawrence 4.09 avg rating — 494 ratings
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Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent Into Crystal Meth Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland
Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent Into Crystal Meth Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland 3.60 avg rating — 771 ratings
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Puget Sound Whales for Sale: The Fight to End Orca Hunting
Puget Sound Whales for Sale: The Fight to End Orca Hunting 4.40 avg rating — 133 ratings
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The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal
The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal 3.83 avg rating — 1,343 ratings
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In koelen bloede : Een waar verslag van een viervoudige moord en zijn gevolgen
In koelen bloede : Een waar verslag van een viervoudige moord en zijn gevolgen 4.09 avg rating — 710,409 ratings
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon 3.90 avg rating — 106,831 ratings
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder 4.17 avg rating — 185,003 ratings
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It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life 3.71 avg rating — 41,093 ratings
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The Pale-Faced Lie
The Pale-Faced Lie 4.28 avg rating — 28,436 ratings
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Signs of Life: To the Ends of the Earth with a Doctor
Signs of Life: To the Ends of the Earth with a Doctor 4.15 avg rating — 543 ratings
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The Two Week Traveller
The Two Week Traveller 4.03 avg rating — 97 ratings
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The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks
The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks 4.01 avg rating — 7,051 ratings
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival 4.07 avg rating — 18,590 ratings
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Snapshots (Matthew Lightfoot Travel Books)
Snapshots (Matthew Lightfoot Travel Books) 4.56 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback
Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback 3.93 avg rating — 17,208 ratings
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The Monk of Mokha
The Monk of Mokha 4.08 avg rating — 21,576 ratings
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code 4.01 avg rating — 3,646 ratings
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Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature
Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature 4.16 avg rating — 1,054 ratings
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City 3.98 avg rating — 2,302 ratings
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Waymaking: An anthology of women's adventure writing, poetry and art
Waymaking: An anthology of women's adventure writing, poetry and art 4.38 avg rating — 146 ratings
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The Silent World
The Silent World 4.27 avg rating — 1,339 ratings
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Finding Gobi
Finding Gobi 4.15 avg rating — 13,576 ratings
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Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic 3.97 avg rating — 2,597 ratings
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Between a Rock and a Hard Place 3.84 avg rating — 23,288 ratings
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Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know: The Autobiography
Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know: The Autobiography 4.12 avg rating — 3,113 ratings
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Vet in a Spin (All Creatures Great and Small, #6)
Vet in a Spin (All Creatures Great and Small, #6) 4.35 avg rating — 2,551 ratings
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Dancing with Death: An Inspiring Real-Life Story of Epic Travel Adventure
Dancing with Death: An Inspiring Real-Life Story of Epic Travel Adventure 4.12 avg rating — 219 ratings
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A New Day Dawns (Travels With Terry, #2)
A New Day Dawns (Travels With Terry, #2) 4.66 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner 4.02 avg rating — 20,919 ratings
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Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition 4.47 avg rating — 3,524 ratings
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Everest : Expedition to the Ultimate
Everest : Expedition to the Ultimate 3.94 avg rating — 537 ratings
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen 4.30 avg rating — 228,801 ratings
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Out of the Cage (Matthew Lightfoot Travel Books)
Out of the Cage (Matthew Lightfoot Travel Books) 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Beijing for Beginners: An Irishman in the People's Republic
Beijing for Beginners: An Irishman in the People's Republic 4.19 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Around the World in 80 Days: Companion to the Pbs Series
Around the World in 80 Days: Companion to the Pbs Series 4.04 avg rating — 7,788 ratings
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Wild: An Elemental Journey
Wild: An Elemental Journey 4.13 avg rating — 841 ratings
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The Brendan Voyage: A Leather Boat Tracks the Discovery of America by the Irish Sailor Saints
The Brendan Voyage: A Leather Boat Tracks the Discovery of America by the Irish Sailor Saints 4.25 avg rating — 1,868 ratings
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night 4.27 avg rating — 16,936 ratings
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Escape from the Land of Snows: The Young Dalai Lama's Harrowing Flight to Freedom and the Making of a Spiritual Hero
Escape from the Land of Snows: The Young Dalai Lama's Harrowing Flight to Freedom and the Making of a Spiritual Hero 3.86 avg rating — 426 ratings
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Paper Lion
Paper Lion 3.97 avg rating — 5,811 ratings
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The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey 3.86 avg rating — 13,217 ratings
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With Every Step: A Son's Quest and a Father's Promise
With Every Step: A Son's Quest and a Father's Promise 4.50 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey 3.80 avg rating — 44,100 ratings
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima 4.04 avg rating — 86,442 ratings
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Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals
Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals 4.14 avg rating — 1,860 ratings
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The Worst Journey in the World
The Worst Journey in the World 4.19 avg rating — 8,228 ratings
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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning 4.22 avg rating — 8,554 ratings
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe 4.18 avg rating — 18,439 ratings
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The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff
by: Tom Wolfe
4.23 avg rating — 54,860 ratings
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Travels in Siberia
Travels in Siberia 3.92 avg rating — 4,614 ratings
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Three Years in Tibet
Three Years in Tibet 4.39 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Naked Mountain
The Naked Mountain 4.13 avg rating — 815 ratings
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The Scholar-Adventurers
The Scholar-Adventurers 4.13 avg rating — 71 ratings
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No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers
No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers 3.69 avg rating — 214 ratings
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Round Ireland with a Fridge
Round Ireland with a Fridge 3.81 avg rating — 20,290 ratings
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Long Way Down: An Epic Journey by Motorcycle from Scotland to South Africa
Long Way Down: An Epic Journey by Motorcycle from Scotland to South Africa 3.92 avg rating — 5,916 ratings
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Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle 4.07 avg rating — 4,433 ratings
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Eight Feet in the Andes: Travels with a Mule from Ecuador to Cuzco
Eight Feet in the Andes: Travels with a Mule from Ecuador to Cuzco 3.99 avg rating — 614 ratings
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Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucía
Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucía 3.84 avg rating — 18,047 ratings
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The Coyote's Bicycle: The Untold Story of 7,000 Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire
The Coyote's Bicycle: The Untold Story of 7,000 Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire 4.02 avg rating — 286 ratings
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Adventure, romance and war in the Far East: The Iris Hay-Edie Diary: A historical memoir
Adventure, romance and war in the Far East: The Iris Hay-Edie Diary: A historical memoir 4.28 avg rating — 160 ratings
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White Boy in Watts
White Boy in Watts 3.89 avg rating — 35 ratings
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